DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE 🪟 Windows

Blue screen: DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE (0x0000009F)

A driver didn’t complete a power transition (sleep, wake, shutdown) in time.

Seen on: Windows

Meaning

Common on laptops waking from sleep, with docks, Wi-Fi/Bluetooth or USB drivers, and graphics drivers. Changing power management settings for the device or updating the driver usually fixes it.

Common causes

  • Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/USB/graphics driver not handling sleep/wake
  • Docking station or external device
  • Outdated BIOS/chipset power management

⚡ Quick fix

  1. Update the device and chipset drivers
  2. Disable “Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power” for the suspect adapter
  3. Update BIOS; test with peripherals unplugged

Detailed fix by platform

Windows

  1. powershell
    powercfg /devicequery wake_armed
powercfg /energy   # creates energy-report.html with driver power issues

How to diagnose

  1. Timing — On sleep/wake/shutdown?
  2. Device — Driver in the dump
  3. Peripherals — Dock attached?

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